I am a current post-bacc student at ASU. I wanted to start a thread for all of you who are applying for the 2017 class. Last year we had amazing support from the 2015 class, so we wanted to carry on that tradition and provide you all with the same support system. Feel free to use this thread to ask questions and seek advice. Many of my classmates will be on here answering your questions as well!
I asked mine and they basically said the number hasn't been determined? I'm hoping celester321's advisor was more willing to say than mine and that there are actually only 48.
Yes, our class size was 48, but it all depends on the clinical spots that they can get. They try to group us in groups of 8 for clinical, so that is why its a multiple of 8. Two years before us the class size was 40. They can't confirm the class size until they know clinical spots. I think last year they were able to confirm in October. We have been lucky in the past 2 years to have a bigger class size :)
Hey everyone I also heard from my adviser yesterday that there were only 48 applicants for 40-48 spots. So that is super good news. I really want to know how many spots they actually are getting this year? Did anyone else hear anything from their adviser about the number of spots they are going to have this year?
When I was going over the different programs with my advisor, I was told that there are 48 spots available for the post bacc. If that number was already confirmed or if it changes every year (which it sounds like a little of both) I don't know. I know in one of the previous comments, someone stated that they think it was confirmed in October.
The current students in this program, who are monitoring this thread, would be happy to answer any questions that you guys have. We are well-informed about everything that is happening within the program. We have been in this position and we get how difficult it is to wait, but the program is a totally different level of stress. We will be more than happy to meet up with students who are accepted, and we are planning on setting you up with a facebook group with current students once everyone is accepted so that we can answer questions and prepare you in the best possible way for the craziness of this program. This is what all the previous post-baccs have done for the new post-bacc classes over the past couple years. I know that we could not have been as successful without the help of the class before us, and they could not have been as successful without the class before them. So we promised to carry on the tradition. We are here for you guys :) Congrats on what seems to be good news for all of you! 40 or 48 spots with 48 applicants sounds amazing (you have to remember that in the past people got in off of the waitlist )
For parking, how much of the program would we actually spend at the downtown campus? I'm trying to be proactive and figure if buying a parking pass for downtown is worth it or if it would be beneficial to save money and buy one for the west campus and take the shuttle if we don't spend a lot of time downtown.
The parking in the East garage downtown is actually the cheapest pass they have (across the west, tempe, and downtown campuses). It was about $125 for the Spring and the Summer combined. It's not far from the Mercado (where you dropped off your application and talked to the advisors). My friend and I are from the West side, and ASU allows you to cross park in specified areas on all of their campuses with any kind of parking pass. So we would park at a West campus lot using our downtown pass and take the bus, which is really nice most of the time, and sometimes we would drive down to campus. In the Spring, we were on campus pretty much every day, except the during clincals when we were at the hospital for the day. During the summer, we were on campus about 3 times per week. Right now, we are only on campus twice a week, but you can decide in the Fall if it is worth it for you do buy a pass, or there are a couple of free places to park that are a little far to walk. I couldn't imagine not having the pass in the Spring and Summer though.
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I asked mine and they basically said the number hasn't been determined? I'm hoping celester321's advisor was more willing to say than mine and that there are actually only 48.